David Senra

He starts the band, and this is the band, he says, that would initially call itself Child, then morph into Steel Mill, then the Bruce Springsteen Band, and eventually become the core of the original E Street Band.

Now, it's right around this time where he feels his mom abandons him and his sister.

His dad is deeply depressed, decides to move from New Jersey to California, and this is how he describes this.

My mom and pops were bound by an unknowable thread.

They made their deal a long time ago.

She had her man who wouldn't leave, and he had his gal who couldn't leave.

Those were the rules, and they superseded all others, even motherhood.

This was how it began and this is how it would end.

My father was able to draw from my mom, a saving and selfless mother, her own ambivalence about family.

And so then we get the first inclination that he's got some deep unresolved trauma and just trouble in his mind.

Because he's pursuing this dream, but he would constantly go back to this little town of Freehold, New Jersey.

And he's going to do this for decades.

And he would drive his car.

He would never get out of his car, but he would drive his car late at night by himself through his old town.

Keep in mind, the book is called Born to Run.

He's trying to outrun his problems.

He does this for decades until he can't anymore.

That's what the movie is about.

That's what the last half of this book is about.

He says, I would drive as if the miles themselves could repair the damage done.